The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a bucolic staple of New York summer theater at the Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, N.Y., will move about two miles south to a new — and permanent — home in 2022. The sprawling performing arts campus is expected to feature an upgraded open-air structure and, eventually, a second indoor stage for year-round performances. Kate Liberman, the festival’s managing director, said an acoustician who evaluated the new site initially had his doubts about the move. “It’s even more spectacular than I could have imagined.”For 33 years, the nonprofit professional theater company has been renting space on a grassy knoll overlooking the Hudson River about an hour north of Manhattan. But last October, Christopher Davis, a conservationist and philanthropist who lives in Garrison, reached out about gifting the company land to build a new home.

Source: New York Times August 26, 2020 15:00 UTC